Word: poor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bucking is not natural to horses; the poor wretches that are made to do so for the gratification of morons are so goaded and tortured that they hate the sight of man and become frenzied to the point of killing themselves, in their efforts to get rid of their abusers...
...originator of wrestling with cattle, whose disgusting act was holding the poor beast by the nose with his teeth, was on his death eulogized by a gaseous columnist, saying his like would not be seen again. A humane animal lover retorted: "It is sincerely hoped there never would...
...Republicans have had a saying . . . "The Roosevelt honeymoon is over." They were mighty poor judges of a lovesick couple. Why, he and the people have got a real love-match and it looks like it would run for at least six years-Will Rogers...
...theme for exposition "The Old Drama and the New," O'Casey quickly won the assemblage with his rich Irish brogue, and proceeded to give a pleasing and exceedingly informal dissertation upon the relative merits of modern and Elizabethan dramatic technique. The modernists, needless to say, emerged a very poor second...
...Harvard soccer team will readily conquer M.I.T., on the Business School Field this afternoon, if the latter's poor record, which includes defeats by Army, 5-1, and Yale, 3-0, is indicative of inferior strength. After four successive hard struggles, with Amherst, Dartmouth, Princeton, and West Point, Coach Carr's Crimson booters hope to gain a breather before their meeting with Yale next Friday, and also to form some gauge of the Eli power...